Okabe Silkscreen Studio
Tadanori Yokoo
Japanese, born 1936
1997
A promotional silkscreen poster by Tadanori Yokoo that advertises Okabe Silkscreen Studio by mixing commercial showmanship with a playful, collage-like visual spectacle.
Your eye is pulled into a blazing semicircular sunrise where a flat‑red boat brims with patterned textiles, barrels and studio figures, flanked top and bottom by elongated ‘OKABE SILKSCREEN STUDIO’ lettering and anchored by a black‑and‑white reclining woman shot through with a shocking red swimsuit.
The work crystallizes Yokoo’s signature blend of traditional Japanese motifs, pop culture and psychedelia, helping to redefine poster design as an expressive art form and influencing postwar Japanese graphic practice.
Medium
Silkscreen
Dimensions
40 5/8 x 28 3/4" (103.2 x 72.8 cm)
Classification
Department
Credit
Gift of the designer
Accession
288.1998
Palette
Art Terms
Exhibitions
